Vehicle hub and axle



(No-Modl.)

- I. M. WARNER.

VEHICLE HUB AND AXLE.

No. 450,438. Patented Apr. 14, 1891.

Isa/m0 M Warmer I Q j H UNITED STATES ATENT FFICE.

ISAAC M. IVARNER, OF BRONSON, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JOHN NEAL, OF OOLDWATER, MICHIGAN.

VEHICLE HUB AND AXLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 450,438, dated April 14, 1891.

Application filed August 29, 1890. Serial No. 863,450. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern: portion or bolt H, extending beyond the end Be it known that I, ISAAC M. WVARNER, a of the hub and adapted to receive the nut I, citizen of the United States, residing at Bronwhich, when screwed up firmly to a seat son, in the county of Branch and State of against the hub, securely holds the same in 5 Michigan, have invented certain new and useposition, the enlargements O preventing end :t'ul Improvements in Vehicle Hubs and Axles, motion of the parts.

of which the following is a specification, reflWI is an oil-duct having a suitable cap N, erence being had therein to the accolnpanyextending through the hub and registering ing drawings. with the aperture O in the axle-box.

to This invention relates to new and useful It is evident that as 'the axle-box turns improvements in vehicle hubs and axles; andwith the hub, and the nut turns with the box, the invention consists in the peculiar conthere is no friction between the hub and nut, struction of an axle-box formed in two parts as in ordinary axles, thus obviating any dansecured within the hub, said parts being gerof loosening the nut in the turning of the 1 5 formed of glass further, in the peculiar wheel.

means of fastening this box upon the axle and The flange F engages under the lip O" and to the hub, whereby the sand is effectually forms a most eflicient sand-band. excluded and all danger of losing the nut is The spherical enlargements take up the obviated; and, further, in the peculiar conwear in the axle-box, and by simply screwing 2Q struction, arrangement, and combination of up the nut I prevent any rattling of the parts. the various parts, all as. more fully herein- The two sections E, I make of glass, as I after described. have found that by the use of glass, in con- In the drawings, Figure l is a vertical cennect-ion with a steel axle, all danger of a hot tral section through my improved hub and box is obviated, and I can run my vehicle 2 5 axle. Fig. 2 is averticai cross-section thereo without the use of oil.

on line a: x. I provide means for oiling the box; but it A is the axle, which has a spindle B, tapered is not necessary that it should be oiled at any 7 5 toward its outer end and provided with the time. I thus overcome all the trouble of tak- -spherical enlargement or bearings O. The ing off the wheel to oil it. All dangerof a hot 0 axle is provided at the inner end of the spinbox is thus avoided, and by constructing the dle with the collar O, which has the inwardbox in the manner described any possibility of ly-projecting lip C, which acts as a sandsand getting into the journal is prevented. 8o band, and a locking-flange for the axle-box What I claim as my invention is-- D. This box is made in two longitudinally- The combination,withahub, of the axle-box separable sections E, each of said halves beformed in two separable halves E of glass, ing suitably out out to form a bearing for the countersunk recesses in said box, enlargespindle of the axle, and also has suitable ments upon the axle adapted to fit in said countersunk recesses F to receive theenlargerecesses, and extension at the forward ends ments 0 of the spindle. The box at the inof said boxes, and means for securing the two 0 ner end has the annular securing-flange F, halves together upon said extension, subadapted to engage underthe flange or lip C, stantially as described.

to hold it in position. In testimony whereof I affix my signature in The hub has a suitable tapered opening to presence of two witnesses. receive the axle-box, and also has a keyway 45 to receive the key or flange G, formed on the ISAAC M. WARNER.

outside of the box. At the forward end the Witnesses: axle-box extends beyond the axle-spindle, M. B. ODOGHERTY,

and has formed thereon the screw-threaded R. M. HULBERT. 

